Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks. You that never done nothin' But build to destroy You play with my world Like it's your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly. Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see through your eyes And I see through your brain Like I see through the water That runs down my drain. You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you set back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion' As young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud. You've thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world For threatening my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood That runs in your veins. How much do I know To talk out of turn You might say that I'm young You might say I'm unlearned But there's one thing I know Though I'm younger than you That even Jesus would never Forgive what you do. Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul. And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead.------- Bob Dylan 1963
Taking a Break
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I experienced some unpleasantness the last few days. I lost my temper and
let it carry over into my writing. Nothing new there. Anyway after I get
upset li...
Typhoon of Tinane'
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The past few weeks have been crazy. You may or may not have noticed this on
the lack of posting. The sparse amount of posts in no way means that I
haven’...
Petraeus’ Coffee
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Remember Jim’s question whether David Petraeus was withholding attention
last year? And remember my observation that Dick Cheney’s propagandist had
resusci...
Rules? In a Knife Fight?!
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Allan Marks, in a comment on a Krugman post, reminds me of one of my
favorite scenes in filmdom. Krugman’s complaining that he doesn’t
understand the rules...
Congress Smashes Pentagon’s New Den of Spies
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[image: Congress Smashes Pentagon’s New Den of Spies]
If the Pentagon's not careful, it's going to find its new network of spies
rolled up by Congress.
Notes on blogland
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I have never been motivated enough to write anything detailed about the
political valences of 'the internet', despite plenty of goading, and
despite having...
Revenge fantasies
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Excerpts from: *The Journals Of A 21st Century Schizoid Man*
This book is a fictional novel;**
*Max Stalin and his toy Guillotine*
This is the story of Max...
First Experience
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Memory is reductive.
It creates flash cards
of random events
and flips through them
when we recall one.
But no matter how good,
flash cards can never
res...
NATO’s Top Governing Body To Visit Georgia
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Rustavi 2 May 21, 2013 Two senior officials to take part in Georgia-NATO
commission The Prime Minister`s Special Representative in Relations with
Russia Zu...
The Nights Electrocute My Fugitive
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- Was looking for the photo for the gag below, found that Planet photo
of Fleabus in the same folder. Fleabus, my favorite cat ever, she's eight ...
SAR #13141
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*Don't let reality get in the way of a profitable narrative.*
*Time And Time Again:* While it appears the White House consul knew in
April of the IRS tar...
The Search for Change
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The linked long term phenomena of falling electoral turnout and a
decreasing percentage of those who do vote, voting for the two main
parties, leaves polit...
Shipping
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There is no post this week because I am too busy shipping out books. All of
the US-bound signed, numbered copies went out on May 20. A third of the
unsigne...
A Pack of Questions about the Boston Bombing
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Official Story has Odd Wrinkles:
by:
Dave Lindorff
*(This article was originally written for WhoWhatWhy)*
The horrific bombing of the Boston ...
week ending May 18
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Fed Balance Sheet Rises To $3.35 Trillion - The Federal Reserve's balance sheet expanded this week, again hitting a record high as the central bank continues...
Wisdom Sayings of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
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There is only one thing present in the entire universe and that is the
NOOR (Divine Effulgence) of the Most Holy, Glorious is He, every thing else
is ...
The price of the Manhattan Project
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There’s been a little radio silence over here last week; the truth is, I’ve
been very absorbed in NUKEMAP-related work. It is going very well; I’ve
found s...
--Dare I say it?? Maybe the IRS had it right...
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because after all, anyone (or any group) claiming they are entitled
to tax-exempt status, not merely a qualified reduction in their
taxes, will be, has been,...
Does it follow?
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If movement conservatism's hallmark is hyperbole in defense of a past that
never was, does it follow that institutional liberalism's defining trait is
hype...
How Japanese and Americans Save Differently
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Cash is a much safer way of saving in Japan than in the United States; it
doesn't lose as much value over time, unlike here. Continue reading →
Allan Nairn on Saints and Sinners
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Additional Evidence on Perez Molina www.allannairn.org MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013
General Otto Perez Molina, the President of Guatemala, didn’t want his name
com...
To Mothers Everywhere
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Same as last year and the year before that. The post for this day will
never change.
Pauline wrote
I saw 'Je dois tout a ma mère' painted on a taxi bumper ...
the mystery of the holes
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Whenever I see any kind of natural phenomenon, I want to know how it happened, and why. A recent example has been the round holes that occur in mud banks in ...
10 Reasons Why You Should Consult a Dietitian
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A DIETITIAN is an individual who has completed a four-year degree
programme and a minimum 800- to 900-hour attachment with a local hospital
during trai...
Kitcat Won’t Give Workers a Break - Richard Trigg
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Hundreds of Brighton bin workers, members of the GMB, are occupying their
canteen in protest at a £4,000 pay cut proposed by the city's Green-led
Council.
...
What I Cannot Live Without
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There are many things I could live without, but those that comprise our
natural world are not among them. I could do some trad...
The White House’s Flawed Korea Policies
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The White House’s Flawed Korea Policies Dispatches From the Edge April 19,
2013 In the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula the Obama administration
is v...
The Bible and Comprehensive Immigration Reform
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The Bible weighs in on immigration, thus bringing the influential weight of
the centuries on the contemporary subject of comprehensive immigration
reform. ...
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Bahrain's Monarchy Cannot Erase Nabeel Rajab
The international tradition of many proverbs has long contended that kings
sit far from the world's happiest p...
Unusual At The Very Least
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Along the road I walk everyday I was in a drainage ditch where I was hoping
to get a picture of a dragonfly. That has not happened yet nor did it this
time...
Let’s Blow this Joint
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I have a confession to make. When we moved into our current house three
years ago, we had to sell our clothes dryer due to gas/electric
incompatibility (ha...
Last days in the bunker?
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As the economic news across the world has turned increasingly ugly since
the beginning of 2013, signs of intensifying desperation within the
leadership o...
One cannot make this stuff up
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Greetings good people.
Yes, another rant from the old guy (me). I'll try and not go on so long as I recently did. I admit the post of 15 February 2013 WAS pr...
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The Chas Freeman clip you sent me, which I have watched again, sets the backdrop for all of this.
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